Every day was a busy day when Powder River coal traffic ran heavy. BN 9533 catches the afternoon sun as it departs Ashland, heading back to the coalfields while a loaded train is waiting on westbo... (more)

White face BN 9260 leads an empty coal set off the river line into Ashland, NE. BN had endeavored to improve visibility with the white face color although the SD60Ms were the only units delivered ... (more)

Powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s, Burlington Northern’s Second 196, curves over Greenhorn Trestle while dropping downgrade on Mullan Pass between Skyline and Weed, Montana, on July 3, 1994.

BN 1 holds at East Union depot with the Nebraska Zeyphr train set as it waits for the coach train to clear East Switch before proceeding east down the mainline to Kishwaukee Grove.

When the Klamath Cogeneration Plant was built, the generators were delivered by rail. An extra BNSF yard job shoves the large loads to the plant site for delivery. The train is passing through Col... (more)

Trough Train
Burlington Northern’s very unique Trough Train bends around a curve at Emerald, Nebraska, on July 8, 1996. These huge 278-foot, 13-unit articulated cars were designed by B... (more)

Snaking through scenic Wendover Canyon, a pair each of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s and Oakway EMD SD60s power a westbound BN coal empty along the North Platte River just west of Wendover, Wyom... (more)

BN train 103 cruises along the Mississippi River just west of Savanna, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 7, 1990. BN GP39M No. 2830 is former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD GP30 No. 944 built ... (more)

Paul Meyer photo.

A Union Pacific manifest highballs Algoma siding along Upper Klamath Lake on the Cascade Subdivision. In nine miles, the train will pause for a crew change at Klamath Falls, Oregon. The signals in... (more)

Slowly climbing over Nebraska’s Pine Ridge, a Burlington Northern coal train grinds upgrade on Crawford Hill between Crawford and Belmont, Nebraska, on the afternoon of July 2, 1989. Up front, t... (more)

In September 1984, a caboose trails a northbound Burlington Northern local freight past the towering bluffs along the Mississippi River at Trail of Tears State Park north of Cape Girardeau, Missou... (more)

In the 1970s, the Southern Pacific railroad was predictably unpredictable – One never knew what one might find when railfanning the SP. And it got even more interesting for a few years when the... (more)

The trees are verdant green along the rocky bluffs lining the Mississippi River at Cassville, Wisconsin, as an eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train cuts a straight path through the scene... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern freight is about to curve through 122-foot Tunnel 2 near Drano Lake at Cooks, Washington, in the Columbia River Gorge on March 4, 1993.